Bonvesin Da La Riva

Bonvesin Da La Riva (born c. 1240, Milan [Italy]—died c. 1315, Milan) was an Italian teacher, moralist, and poet, whose most important work, the vernacular poetry of Libro delle tre scritture (1274; “Book of the Three Writings”), described in three sections the pains of hell, the joys of heaven, and the Passion. A member of the Humiliati (Umiliati), a Milanese monastic order, Bonvesin taught grammar and wrote a great many moralistic and religious works in...